that helped us. to this day we are friends with many of them and the reception has been great for us and we have been working. you know, we are trying to give back basically. >> >> uplifting of spirits. >> what's going on with you as far as your work back there? you are taking time off. this is time off for you? >> in order for us to come here, okay? we have a total of 36 members come in over a three week period. we needed to come up with 96 shift trades. so if you do the math, although we are not coming up here with hundreds of guys, it took 132 men to pull this off. >> what are people's reactions? what are they saying to to you? >> everybody is grateful to see us. they are real happy. if we can just uplift some of these people's spirits and let them know that things are going to get better. every day is going to be better. >> you know, i have talked to some friends who don't live in this area. you know, live on the west coast. it seems like people outside of this area just don't get how horrific it